After his Yeats’ biography (published 1948), Ellmann begins putting the foundations in place for his Joyce (published 1959) and analyses the author’s gleaning process for Ulysses, “His [Joyce] work is ‘history fabled’, not only in Portrait but in Ulysses and his other writings as well. He was never a creator ex nihilo, he put together what he remembered and he remembered most of what he had seen or had heard other people remember. The latter category was, in a city given over to anecdote, a large one. His art, as the following pages attempt to demonstrate, was a continual transposition and re-composition of known materials.”, 50pp; inscribed by the author - 'with admiration for his book' - to Herbert Gorman, the first biographer of Joyce; B2 acknowledges B1.
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